EU Parliament to support Orphan Works rules

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Here's a quote from The Register's article:-

Astonishingly, an artwork need only be declared an orphan in one member state to acquire orphan status throughout the EU. So an artwork may be declared to be an "orphan" in Romania after a not-so-diligent search - oops! - even though the author is on record as identifiable in France, the UK and Germany.
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Not good. Not good at all, although ultimately the way that Directives are realised in local law will vary from country to country, so it may well be that while it is difficult to enforce copyright in countries where the Directive is interpreted badly it should still hold that copyright will be enforceable in the UK as long as the realisation of the law in this country is done with more rigour.

(cough!....yeah right.....cough!)
 
I'm slightly puzzled by the term "Orphan Works" stuff on say Flickr isn't orphan, flickr know who the author is and have their contact details.
 
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